Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANo one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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